Formerly known as Duetto, Cheerp is an interesting alternative to Emscripten that seems to compile C++ to JavaScript at a different, less-abstracted level. Version 1.0 has just been released, it’s available for Windows, OS X and Linux, and is open source too.

The creator of Lo-Dash talks about a variety of unique and unconventional JavaScript performance techniques and tricks he’s developed or picked up while creating the library.

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